Games like Gretel & Hansel
If Gretel & Hansel is your kind of game, the closest matches are DEGENERATE STAR, Fran Bow and The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Gretel & Hansel: Gretel & Hansel is a delightfully twisted exploration-adventure crafted entirely by hand in watercolor. Abandoned in a cursed forest, you play as Gretel, guiding her brother home while outwitting deadly traps, unraveling sinister puzzles, and escaping the clutches of a ravenous witch.
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DEGENERATE STAR
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Top pick for Gretel & Hansel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Gretel & Hansel.
Investigate the S.S Vandermeer and discover the fate of those aboard.
Fran Bow
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Second-strongest match for Gretel & Hansel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
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Third-strongest match for Gretel & Hansel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
Slender Threads
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Ranked #4 for Gretel & Hansel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
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Ranked #5 for Gretel & Hansel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
Waking up from a nightmare, Jessica finds confirmation to her suspicions. To figure out her past, she goes to an orphanage, where she hopes to find answers to questions that she tried so hard to forget.
Lucid Dream Adventure
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Ranked #6 for Gretel & Hansel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
Agony
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Ranked #7 for Gretel & Hansel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
Agony is a first-person, survival horror set in hell. You will begin your journey as a tormented soul within the depths of hell without any memories about your past. The special ability to control people on your path, and possess demons, gives you the measures to survive.
Still Wakes the Deep
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Ranked #8 for Gretel & Hansel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gretel & Hansel.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gretel & Hansel.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gretel & Hansel.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gretel & Hansel.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Gretel & Hansel
- What games are most similar to Gretel & Hansel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gretel & Hansel are DEGENERATE STAR, Fran Bow, The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2.
- Who developed Gretel & Hansel?
- Gretel & Hansel was developed by Spider House.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Gretel & Hansel.
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